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Michael Novinson

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Michael Novinson is an associate editor at CRN.com, reporting on solution providers located west of the Mississippi River, as well as in Michigan and Wisconsin. He covered technology, manufacturing, banking and real estate at the Worcester Business Journal in Massachusetts from 2013 to 2014, and was a business and county government reporter for the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, N.Y. from 2010 to 2013. Michael was born and raised in Farmington Hills, Mich., and holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Haverford College in Haverford, Pa.

Customers moving to the cloud tend to prefer a platform-agnostic offering like Guardicore rather than VMware NSX which locks users into vSphere or Cisco ACI which locks users into an on-premise physical environment, CEO Pavel Gurvich said.

Clients affected by the Pardot marketing automation software scripting error received System Administrator access Saturday, but still needed to figure out how to return profiles and user permissions to their previous settings.

Salesforce says the issue impacts current and former customers of the company’s Pardot marketing automation software, where the deployment of a database script resulted in granting users broader data access than intended.

The Red Sox were willing to take a meeting with Acronis thanks to the company’s reputation in the system imaging space, which had been a ‘pain point’ for the organization, says Randy George, the team’s senior director of technology operations.

CrowdStrike said its ability to achieve future revenue growth depends in part on training channel partners to independently sell and deploy its flagship Falcon platform, according to its latest SEC filing.

The 'extensive' fraud occurred between May and October 2018, Bloomberg reported, with hackers breaking into the accounts of 100 Amazon sellers and funneling cash from loans or sales into their own bank accounts.

Symantec President, CEO and board member Greg Clark has stepped down from all roles effective immediately following an internal accounting probe, activist investor unrest and enterprise sales struggles.